by Chris | Jan 24, 2009 | Applications, Culture, Development, Development, Development, Mac, Mobile, Web
The registration for the – again – biggest Ruby-on-Rails conference in the US is now open: RailsConf 2009. O’Reilly organizes the conference again. but this time it’s not Portland but Las Vegas where the rails community meets again. Las Vegas...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2009 | Applications, Development, Mobile
Really amazing to read these new figures: 500,000,000 app downloads. Never heard of a number like this at one of the mobile operator portals of the pre-iPhone century 😉 Vodafone life or T-Motion would have dreamed of numbers like this. But the 500 million app...
by Chris | Jan 10, 2009 | Applications, Applications, Applications, Mac, Mobile, Web
Deutsche Bahn and T-Mobile extend their traveling WiFi HotSpot service at the ICE train routes. Now, also the route Frankfurt am Main – Hanover – Hamburg is covered with WiFi internet access (“railnet”). Overall, we have WiFi internet...
by Chris | Jan 9, 2009 | Development, Development, Mac, Mobile
Tim Pritlove talked about the iPhone and the native application development for that mobile phone with Martin Pittenauer and Dominik Wagner. Mac users may be aware of Martin and Dominik as the Coding Monkeys with their first Mac OS X masterpiece: SubEthaEdit, a...
by Chris | Jan 5, 2009 | Applications, Culture, Development, Hardware, Mac, Mobile
Just read the letter from Steve Jobs and die Apple Community. It’s a pity, that Steve cannot give “his” keynote today, but no problem to get over that. But it’s shocking to hear that it’s because of health problems. So: I absolutely...
by Chris | Jan 5, 2009 | Applications, Development, Mobile
These days are really exciting: Tomorrow at 9:00 PST (18:00 CET) Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing bei Apple, will begin his keynote at MacWorldExpo … and today CompareMe, the first codedifferent iPhone application is released...